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The Signpost: 26 March 2014

Comment: A foolish request

Traffic report: Down to a simmer

Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates

News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced

Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own

Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia

Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?

WikiProject report: From the peak

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:19, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

hello

do you mind me copying your welcome to User talk:121.75.17.32 (500 millionth edit) onto User talk:178.221.85.35 (600 millionth edit)? Double sharp (talk) 04:22, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead. Feel free to modify it if you want. Conifer (talk) 05:33, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

News and notes: Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future

WikiProject report: Deutschland in English

Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference

Featured content: April Fools

Traffic report: Regressing to the mean

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 April 2014

News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments

WikiProject report: WikiProject Law

Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz

Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes

Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep

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The Signpost: 23 April 2014

Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?

Op-ed: Five things a Wikipedian in residence can do

News and notes: Wikimedian passes away

WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism

Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015

Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane

Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church

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The Signpost: 30 April 2014

News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal

Traffic report: Going to the Doggs

Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director

WikiProject report: Genetics

Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum

Featured content: Browsing behaviours

Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:23, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?

Traffic report: TMZedia

In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director

WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three

In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne

WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision

Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:56, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 May 2014

Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity

WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico

News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia

Featured content: On the rocks

Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May

Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:44, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution

Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles

Traffic report: Doodles' dawn

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:03, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video

Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon

Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats

Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:52, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

Special report: IEG funding for women's stories: a new approach to the gender gap

News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees

Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA

Featured content: Ye stately homes of England

In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia

Traffic report: Autumn in summer

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:01, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 June 2014

News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia

Traffic report: The week the wired went weird

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler

Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees

Featured content: Politics, ships, art, and cyclones

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:26, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 June 2014

News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use

Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture

Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey

Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones

WikiProject report: Visiting the city

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:59, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 June 2014

News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan

Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?

Exclusive: "We need to be true to who we are": Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost

Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags

Featured content: Showing our Wörth

WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true

Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:51, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 July 2014

In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms

Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.

News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award

Featured content: Ship-shape

WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America

Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:23, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?

Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more

Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis

Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!

News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative

Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:54, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile

Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week

Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic

Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun

News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:26, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

A year and a half after you opposed my RfA

I am inviting you to leave me some feedback, 18 months after you opposed my RfA. Do you still believe I am not fit to be an admin? Do you believe I have been able to improve past the concerns you have brought up? Do not be afraid of being too harsh, I am specifically welcoming criticism as I believe it is the best way to improve and I am always looking to learn from my mistakes. I am particularly looking for feedback as to whether you have objections to myself lifting the self-imposed 1RR restriction I had agreed to towards the end of my RfA. If you don't have time to comment, don't fret it either, this is nothing I'll lose sleep over. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 19:48, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel

Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it

News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier

Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform

Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:30, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

Book review: Knowledge or unreality?

Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate

News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?

Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World

Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit

Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:06, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

Traffic report: Ebola

Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them

Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico

News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:51, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia

Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective

Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars

News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia

Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia

In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes

Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:56, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 August 2014

Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia

Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

WikiProject report: Bats and gloves

Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:09, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news

News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster

Traffic report: Viral

Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:37, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended

Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more

Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial

Traffic report: Holding Pattern

WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)

Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:03, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 September 2014

Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready

Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity

Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue

WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:56, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Pok Pok for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Pok Pok is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pok Pok until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Si Trew (talk) 23:05, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Pok Pok

The article Pok Pok has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Patent WP:PROMO. Creator only has entries from Wikipedia Signpost, has not created or edited anything other. Not WP:WORLDWIDE.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Si Trew (talk) 23:06, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the message at my talk. I've pinged you but will add here in case you miss it. In no way was I casting aspersions on you personally. I can see how it may have seemed so, just as in my eyes the article seemed very PROMO. Glad it isn't: I've already withdrawn the nomination and it's been closed (you have lots of new references to follow up!). It was in no way personal to you. I did check your edit history, but my Internet link failed so perhaps it just gave me the most recent etc. There has been a spate of Portland redirects at RfD, my usual hangout, so perhaps I was over suspicious for which I apologise. I certainly meant you no harm and if you feel I have, anything I can do to say sorry more publicly I surely shall. I am not in the habit of hurting people's feelings. Si Trew (talk) 03:25, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 September 2014

In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics

WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland

News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third

Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack

Featured content: Which is not like the others?

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:37, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 September 2014

Featured content: Oil paintings galore

In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii

Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary

Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland

WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time

Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:50, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

i have no idea how to cite

Listen i don't know how to cite i tried doing this on another page but it got screwed up but i got it from wayback machine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dfrr (talk • contribs) 19:43, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

@Dfrr: You can use any of the citation templates—{{cite web}}, {{cite news}}—in the editing toolbar and include the archived URL as a parameter. See Help:Using the Wayback Machine, especially the "Working with cite templates" section. Conifer (talk) 22:11, 28 September 2014 (UTC)